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During the years 1992 and 1993, eighteen centers for Pediatric Cardiology spread all over the Country enrolled 1445 new babies with congenital cardiac malformations from a population of 341, 647 surveyed livebirths. The new cases were registered using the same methodologic criterions of the EUROCAT study in order to evaluate differences and\/or similarities between the studies. The prevalence varied between 1.8\u2030 and 8.1\u2030; the average being 4.6%. The large range in prevalence is presumed to be related to different customs and hierarchies in flow and referral of patients. We provide total prevalence of individual lesions, and distribution of sentinel cardiac anomalies, in the Italian study and compare them with EUROCAT. Isolated ventricular septal defect is the most common lesion (39%); followed by atrial septal defect (7.5%); pulmonary valvar stenosis (7.3%); atrioventricular septal defects (5.4%); patency of the arterial duct (3.8%); complete transposition (3.7%); tetralogy of Fallot (3.3%); aortic coarctation (2.4%); aortic valvar stenosis (2.2%); and left heart hypoplasia (1.8%). The echographic stratification of ventricular and atrial septal defects, by location and size, was in keeping with the findings of the EUROCAT study. Because of the recent widespread availability of color-Doppler tecniques, the stratification of aortic and pulmonary valvar stenosis was an innovative approach in our study. Among the complex cardiovascular anomalies, double inlet ventricle and pulmonary atresia had a proportion of about 2% each; with double outlet right ventricle, common arterial trunk, Ebstein's malformation, tricuspid atresia, interrupted aortic arch and totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection having a proportion ranging from 0.5 to 0.8%. 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